Exploring Section A

Hello Year 12,

I hope that you have had a good holiday and have made excellent progress with your micro analysis.  I wanted to give you a preview of some of our work for next half-term.  In my lessons, we will focus on aspects of the Section A exam.   We will start with an investigation of the production, distribution (including marketing) and exhibition of films.  The following link to the micro site from the Film Distributors' Association (FDA) is excellent, as it allows you to explore the essential life of a film after its production phase.

http://www.launchingfilms.tv/

Key questions to explore are:

What happens to a film when the producers and director have completed it?

How does it get into cinemas and how do audiences become aware of it and interested in seeing it?

Please take a look and watch some of the clips as this will inform our learning next week.

Mrs Q

Just Checking In

Hello all,

Just popping by to see how you're getting on with your Face/Off micro-analyses. If you are stuck then please do email me and remember to try to send me some ideas that you've had for your film clips as soon as possible so that I can check them out for you.

If you haven't started your micro analysis then do so as soon as possible.

Hope you're enjoying your break,

Miss Ryan

Twilight Micro Analysis Example

The original posting can be found here with the example of a short micro analysis : http://filmstudiesatcampion.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/below-is-mini-sample-of-micro-analysis.html

Remember that your analysis should be of a clip that is 3-5 minutes in length and you should write 1500 words. The length of the Twilight film clip is only about 60 seconds and the word count is approx 180 words... As I may have mentioned in class, it is extremely hard to find a decent scene for analysis in this film. Don't use Twilight!

Fabulous Phone App for Cinemagoers

 

Run Pee tells you when to run to the loo during a film without missing anything important and tells you what's happening in the film while you're away. Brilliant.

Casino Royale Clip

For Task Two: Complete activities in the blue box on page 55

Task One is on the post below this.